Asshur (the city of Assur)

Location

Type

settlement

Coordinates

35.4567, 43.2625

Certainty

very-high

OpenBible.info: "Assur (modern): very high confidence" (page fetched 2026-10-17). The OpenBible entry is for the place named in Num.24.22, Num.24.24, Ps.83.8; linking it to the Gen 10 person/people is by name only.

OpenBible.info first-ranked identification (Assur (modern)); representative point 43.262500,35.456667 (lon,lat).

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• OpenBible GeoJSON (opens in a new tab)

Scripture

• Numbers 24:22 (opens in a new tab)
• Numbers 24:24 (opens in a new tab)
• Psalms 83:8 (opens in a new tab)
• Ezekiel 27:23 (opens in a new tab)

Events here

• "Assyrian Belus" = Shalmaneser I
• Ilushuma founds the Temple of Ishtar in Assur
• Erishum I of Assyria
• Semiramis II (Tukulti-Ninurta I); end of the Arab dynasty
• Shamshi-Adad I of Assyria
• Ushpia founds the city of Assur (estimate)

Related

• Asshur

Free sources

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• The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) public-domain

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